In Search of Giants: Bigfoot Sasquatch Encounters [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

by Thomas Steenburg (Author)

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Product Description
Read about a true-life mystery! The puzzle of the sasquatch has been ongoing since the first men settled the West and heard stories from the Native population about strange and elusive large, hairy creatures. These stories have endured to present day and eyewitnesses continues to come forward. Unfortunately no hard physical evidence has been produced. This book gives accounts of sightings that have occurred over the last twenty years throughout western Canada. Many of these encounters have never been written about before and all offer insight into this lasting mystery. This book is sure to interest and intrigue even the most sceptical.

About the Author
Thomas Steenburg

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Hancock House Publishing; illustrated edition edition (October 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0888394462
• ISBN-13: 978-0888394460
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,098,770 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A personal account of one man's bigfoot investigation, May 11, 2001

By	Eric Turowski (Oakland, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Steenburg has been investigating sasquatch in northwestern Canada for years, and he's presenting his latest evidence. The meat of his book is interviews with subjects who claim to have seen the big North American primate, typed verbatim minus the 'uh...' and 'um...' He even gives sighting statistics taken from the data he collected.

While it is interesting to get an in depth glance at a cryptozoologist at work, Steenburg (for all his stat making) seems to be missing the real pattern.

Nearly every interview is identical, a pattern that also reveals itself in alien abduction scenarios. The subject witnessed a bigfoot from (usually) over 100 yards, it was walking quickly in one direction, until it saw the witness, then changed to a different direction and disappeared. (Animal behavior, it would seem, should be somewhat less predictable.) Little trace is left behind, neither footprints nor hair. The lack of tracks is explained away by hard, dry, rocky (pick your adjective) ground.

I believe Steenburg is a genuine researcher providing only the facts he has collected. However, a reading of his text begs an explanation for the sighting pattern that occurs again and again. This seems to make the entire book more a comment on Jungian archetypes that prey on our collective subconscious rather than an exploration of unknown simians in the Canadian wilderness.

The book as a whole works for the skeptic, the true believer, or the mildly interested. It's an honest work about honest people who honestly believe they've encountered something. It's the "something" that is left in doubt.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Steenburg on Canada, September 9, 2005

By	R. Howell "boriskhan" (Medford, OR) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Thomas Steenburg seems to be the man to cover western Canada now for info on sasquatch. Given that former leadman John Green is getting on in years, Steenburg takes the reigns nicely and gives a steady stream of incidents taking place in British Columbia and Alberta. The upside of the book is that Steenburg sticks with Canada, his home and covers the area well. The downfall is, he uses the formula interview questions on every interview and some of the questions tend to be leading. After repeatedly reading the same questions, you become a little bored but at least he's asking the same questions of everyone.

The stories are varied and he does a good job with the questioning but I still find it hard to believe people can pick out certain details on someone/thing at a distance of 1/2 a mile. I've tested this, you really don't get much facial or miniscule detail on a person standing over a 100 yards away and that's stretching it. General looks yes but details by the naked eye just isn't all the feasible.

The most intriguing story of the book is the Crandell (sp?) Campground incident and will probably become a regular story in future books on bigfoot/sasquatch. The overall flow of the book is easy to read and you get some much lesser known encounters by regular people all over western Canada. Combined with his other book "Sasquatch:Bigfoot, the Continuing Mystery" and Robert Alley's "Raincoast Sasquatch" you get a very good coverage of all of BC and Alberta.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars shows you what to do, June 13, 2004

By	Ben Bartlett (Wa, USA) - See all my reviews

What Thomas Steenburg does in this book is tells you what he doesn in his filed research, and how he interviews people who have seen a bigfoot. This is a very unique book, not only does he tell you what he think of any one sigthing he looks into, but he even writes the interviews in the book to let you be the judge! one of the better books on the subject. i rate it 5 stars, because it has such a large amount of info in it.